Some cities grow very large because of two important reasons. First, there may be important natural resources like wood, gas, oil, rivers or harbors near or in the city. Natural resources like wood or oil can be brought to the city and made into products to sell. Other resources, like rivers or harbors help to send the city’s products to other places to be sold. Second, the city may be located in a place where roads and rivers come together. This makes these cities good places to buy and sell goods.
Houston is a city that grew large because it has two important natural resources. They are oil and a good harbor. The oil can be brought to Houston, made into different products, and shipped out of the harbor to other parts of the world.
Chicago is a city that grew very large because of its location at a place where roads, railways, and airways meet. In Chicago, goods can be brought together from all over the country and bought and sold. Then the goods can be loa
A. natural resources
B. convenient traffic
C. population growth
D. A and B
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M: Please buy two packets of cigarettes for me while you are at the store.
W: I’m not going to any store. I’m going to see Aunt Mary. But I will get them for you at the gas station.
M: These shoes are on sale. We can buy two pairs for the coming winter.
W: But look at the price. My mother bought the same things at half the price.
| Large, multinational corporations may
be the companies whose ups and downs seize headlines. But to a far greater
extent than most Americans realize, the economy’s vitality depends on the
fortunes of tiny shops and restaurants, neighborhood services and factories.
Small businesses, defined as those with fewer than 100 workers, now employ
nearly 60 percent of the work force and are expected to generate half of all new
jobs between now and the year 2000. Some 1.2 million small firms have opened
their doors over the past six years of economic growth, and 1989 will see an
additional 200000 entrepreneurs striking off on their own. Too many of these pioneers, however, will blaze ahead unprepared. Idealists will overestimate the clamor for their products or fail to factor in the competition. Nearly everyone will underestimate, often fat A. the prosperity and decline of the transnational corporations B. the rise and fall of the markets and products as well as capital C. the fate of the small businesses such as small plants and restaurants D. The economic increase and decrease of the large companies [单项选择]Passage Two
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